Alex Faulkner c.v.
I attended the Bath Academy of Art when it was housed at Corsham Court and Beechfield House from 1976 - 1979. At that time there was a great deal of interest in neo-constructivism and ironic painterliness — the twin poles of teachers, Ed Whittaker and Mike Kidner — and these tendencies undoubtedly influenced my own work at that time. Whilst living in Corsham I worked in the summer vacation for the painter Howard Hodgkin who then lived at Castle Combe.
I was taught by Michael Kidner, (whom I also later worked for), Peter Kinley, Michael Simpson and Adrian Heath among others. I moved to London in 1979, having had a painting exhibited and sold in the New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA that year. I found a studio in Southwark and worked there, later developing a design business that sustained me until ten or twelve years ago when I started to paint again and also to take up printmaking. I moved back to the West country and I received a distinction in my Master’s Degree in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University in 2003.
I exhibit regularly, and have work in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum and numerous private collections. I write long poems and these have been published, most recently in the collection, Like Odysseus, which also formed the catalogue for a 2023 exhibition in Bruton, Somerset with the artist Christopher Bucklow.
Selected Exhibitions and other dates:
1979 — New Contemporaries, ICA London
2015 — Dimitri & Wenlop, Riflemaker Gallery. Two man show with Christopher Bucklow
2015— Black Swan Gallery Open Competition
2016 — Paintings and Drawings, Black Swan Gallery. One Man Show.
2018 — Print work acquired by the V&A Museum.
2019 — Group Show, Romantics at St Barbe Museum & Gallery, Lymington
2019 — Group Show, To the Fore at Mount Art, Frome
2020 — Group Show, Being With Trees at Bermondsey Project Space
2022 — Group Show, Trees & the Sacred at Norwich Cathedral Hostry
2023 — Group Show, A Sense of Place at Bermondsey Project Space
2023 — The Alphabet of Dimitri & Wenlop, Antitaupe Gallery Bruton, with Christopher Bucklow
2023 — Publication of the long poem cycle, Like Odysseus, published by Ball-Press
2023 — Publication of limited edition deluxe Artists’ Tarot cards, The Tarot of Dimitri & Wenlop
2023 — Group Show, Regeneration at Hansard Studio, Kensington
2024 — Print work acquired by the Modern and Contemporary Collection and the Print Collection (The Golder Thompson Gift)
2024 — Painting acquired by Contemporary Art Collection at Chippenham Museum
2024— Group Show, Chippenham Museum